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How much money did you make this year? ($$$)

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exciting clown
  12/18/25
710K
Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/18/25
lawyer?
exciting clown
  12/18/25
yea
Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
exciting clown
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
greedy mood
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
Unhinged sadistic parlour
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
greedy mood
  12/18/25
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Bisexual twinkling office
  12/18/25
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Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
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Razzle-dazzle quadroon
  12/19/25
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Aqua Arousing Windowlicker Wagecucks
  12/19/25
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Hateful Bistre Theatre
  12/20/25
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Overrated Dilemma
  12/21/25
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geriatric laughsome piazza
  12/21/25
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Concupiscible avocado address
  12/21/25
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Aphrodisiac Fear-inspiring Stead Private Investor
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
Khaki plaza
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
exciting clown
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
Khaki plaza
  12/18/25
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Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
Naked location
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
poppy histrionic nursing home
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
Naked location
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
exciting clown
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
Glassy excitant national security agency black woman
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
Naked location
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
Electric area telephone
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
Electric area telephone
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
Electric area telephone
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca
  12/18/25
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Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/18/25
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topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/19/25
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Filthy house rigpig
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
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internet-worthy rehab
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
Electric area telephone
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
Chartreuse Titillating Haunted Graveyard
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
Charismatic cruise ship
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
Fantasy-prone den candlestick maker
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
flesh business firm son of senegal
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
pink drunken resort friendly grandma
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
Idiotic hunting ground
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
mentally impaired cobalt doctorate
  12/18/25
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burgundy passionate round eye indian lodge
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
exciting clown
  12/18/25
I am atty.
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
exciting clown
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
Electric area telephone
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
motley arrogant trailer park
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
motley arrogant trailer park
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
translucent mind-boggling tank rigor
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
motley arrogant trailer park
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
Crystalline feces
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
Crystalline feces
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
Crystalline feces
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
house-broken primrose legend
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
Overrated Dilemma
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
ocher institution
  12/22/25
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ocher institution
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
ocher institution
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
Crystalline feces
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
burgundy passionate round eye indian lodge
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca
  12/18/25
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Aqua Arousing Windowlicker Wagecucks
  12/19/25
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Nofapping ladyboy selfie
  12/19/25
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ocher institution
  12/22/25
not enough.
topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/18/25
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heady bright main people set
  12/20/25
little under $6M
fishy internal respiration
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
Electric area telephone
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
greedy mood
  12/18/25
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cracking autistic step-uncle's house codepig
  12/18/25
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flesh business firm son of senegal
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
fishy internal respiration
  12/19/25
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Obsidian Zombie-like Nowag Lodge
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
cream chad
  12/18/25
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Bisexual twinkling office
  12/18/25
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topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/18/25
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violet adulterous preventive strike giraffe
  12/20/25
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Concupiscible avocado address
  12/21/25
-$184K
Bat-shit-crazy spot ratface
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
Canary Zippy Theater Cuckold
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
Balding puce kitchen therapy
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
Razzle-dazzle quadroon
  12/19/25
low-200s
Crawly Cyan Hospital
  12/18/25
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Wild Beta Roommate Forum
  12/18/25
like 2 million
Soul-stirring Sooty Queen Of The Night
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
slap-happy seedy halford
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
claret brunch
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
jet-lagged immigrant
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
claret brunch
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
Aphrodisiac Fear-inspiring Stead Private Investor
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
jet-lagged immigrant
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
pink drunken resort friendly grandma
  12/19/25
thank you
jet-lagged immigrant
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
lilac pozpig
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
Adventurous underhanded toilet seat
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
aromatic orchestra pit
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
brilliant marketing idea travel guidebook
  12/19/25
what happened
Razzle-dazzle quadroon
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
brilliant marketing idea travel guidebook
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
Aqua Arousing Windowlicker Wagecucks
  12/19/25
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exciting clown
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
exhilarant place of business
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
internet-worthy rehab
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
Sapphire outnumbered parlor liquid oxygen
  12/20/25
~$900k
Fantasy-prone den candlestick maker
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
rough-skinned senate multi-billionaire
  12/19/25
Wow.
heady bright main people set
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
rough-skinned senate multi-billionaire
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
rough-skinned senate multi-billionaire
  12/19/25
lol
Citrine Sickened Shrine
  12/19/25
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topaz fiercely-loyal gas station
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
pink drunken resort friendly grandma
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
Chest-beating peach lay
  12/19/25
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pink drunken resort friendly grandma
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
translucent mind-boggling tank rigor
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
Diverse lavender juggernaut
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
lake theater stage corn cake
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
Diverse lavender juggernaut
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
Chest-beating peach lay
  12/21/25
You sound poor
Aphrodisiac Fear-inspiring Stead Private Investor
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
violet adulterous preventive strike giraffe
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
cordovan casino
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
Judgmental Boyish Milk Home
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
cordovan casino
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
claret brunch
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
cordovan casino
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
ocher institution
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
cordovan casino
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
fishy internal respiration
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
Judgmental Boyish Milk Home
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
heady bright main people set
  12/20/25
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exciting clown
  12/20/25
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Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
Hateful Bistre Theatre
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
slap-happy seedy halford
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
Splenetic market death wish
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
Splenetic market death wish
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
Splenetic market death wish
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
Vigorous library new version
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
angry locus deer antler
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
Vigorous library new version
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
exciting clown
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
Vigorous library new version
  12/21/25
...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
Diverse lavender juggernaut
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
Chartreuse Titillating Haunted Graveyard
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
razzmatazz double fault
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
exciting clown
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
exciting clown
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
exciting clown
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
exciting clown
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
exciting clown
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
elite headpube whorehouse
  12/21/25
...
geriatric laughsome piazza
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
Navy cheese-eating abode
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
Vivacious Yellow Chapel
  12/21/25
180 last note
Crystalline feces
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
angry locus deer antler
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
Insanely creepy station boltzmann
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
house-broken primrose legend
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
poppy histrionic nursing home
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
angry locus deer antler
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
maize know-it-all toaster
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
hairraiser drab brethren pervert
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
Concupiscible avocado address
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
Diverse lavender juggernaut
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
maize know-it-all toaster
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
heady bright main people set
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/23/25
cap gains
translucent mind-boggling tank rigor
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
Emerald floppy pocket flask
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
heady bright main people set
  12/25/25
~$500k
razzmatazz double fault
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: exciting clown



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask

710K

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: exciting clown

lawyer?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask

yea

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: exciting clown

Biglaw?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: greedy mood

Me: 842k

Wife: 267K

Including last year's bonus

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Unhinged sadistic parlour

Lawyers?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: greedy mood

My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Bisexual twinkling office



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle quadroon



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Aqua Arousing Windowlicker Wagecucks



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: Hateful Bistre Theatre



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Overrated Dilemma



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: geriatric laughsome piazza



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Concupiscible avocado address



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Fear-inspiring Stead Private Investor



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Khaki plaza

$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in over the next two weeks

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: exciting clown

Trash or legal fees?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Khaki plaza

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: Naked location

$130k in shitlaw

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:57 PM
Author: poppy histrionic nursing home

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Naked location

AssociaTTTe

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: exciting clown

why dont you go solo?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: Glassy excitant national security agency black woman

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: Naked location

Nigger voicemail$

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: Electric area telephone

A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poor.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Electric area telephone

When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was the shit. Xoxo told me that it was the only CR goal for a lawyer. And I had no kids.

Now I'm nearing 40 and practically live paycheck to paycheck. Exit ops are SLIM.

Turns out I was a retard for going in house.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520231)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Electric area telephone

To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and early 30s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520240)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:26 PM
Author: Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca

you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages ago, moron

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520352)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520383)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:56 AM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522387)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: Filthy house rigpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528363)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie

In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from the exit option. What do you have in mind?

This is like seeing the ship you're on in the middle of the ocean catch fire, getting into a lifeboat and rowing away, and then saying you want an exit option from the lifeboat. You're lucky to be on that lifeboat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522250)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: internet-worthy rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522385)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522508)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:05 PM
Author: Electric area telephone

Over $400k if you add wife.

After tax income: ~200k

Housing (vhcol area + 3 kids): ~100k

Child care: ~$50k

Add in some money to retirement and kids college, and not much left for day to day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522995)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523480)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:26 PM
Author: Chartreuse Titillating Haunted Graveyard

you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not 200k after income taxes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525980)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:25 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fuck and apparently we are prepaying for next quarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528347)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Charismatic cruise ship

286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49519951)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie

Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and other work-related expenses (work clothes, work commute, work bag, work Starbucks, work $19 lunch salad...)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522256)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Fantasy-prone den candlestick maker

PATRIARCHY!!!

Of course it doesn’t.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522337)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:45 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie

Oh. So why does she work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522351)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:04 PM
Author: flesh business firm son of senegal

180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49519965)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station

don't you brag about being rich?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522392)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:06 PM
Author: pink drunken resort friendly grandma

sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full of guys bullshitting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522784)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:10 PM
Author: Idiotic hunting ground

me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k

but i was also laid off



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49519995)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:15 PM
Author: Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca

if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520019)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: mentally impaired cobalt doctorate

Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520082)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: burgundy passionate round eye indian lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520207)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

$790K. Wife made about $15K.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520114)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:55 PM
Author: exciting clown

Doing what, and why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520142)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

I am atty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520156)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:59 PM
Author: exciting clown

I know that, I meant your wife

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520161)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: Electric area telephone

He's an attorney. What's so complicated?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520202)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:40 PM
Author: motley arrogant trailer park

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522699)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: motley arrogant trailer park

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522705)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527326)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 12:33 AM
Author: translucent mind-boggling tank rigor

He's an attorney. What's so complicated?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49532966)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: motley arrogant trailer park

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49534294)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:06 PM
Author: Crystalline feces

Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier this month. I'm fucking rich.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520223)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie

I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522258)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527328)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 12:49 PM
Author: Crystalline feces

You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of prefthige. Intangible honours are more valuable than silver or gold.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527624)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. In 1993.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531954)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: Crystalline feces

Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for bragging about a discount walmart watch?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531959)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:35 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed I’m buying a Rolex. One would hope there are more posters than that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531998)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49532872)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:34 PM
Author: Overrated Dilemma

lol I make more money than lex tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528370)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528421)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: ocher institution

I feel safe in this subthread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531586)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: ocher institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531589)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: ocher institution

lex how’s your dating life? jw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531592)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Crystalline feces

I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: threads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531824)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca

why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520253)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: burgundy passionate round eye indian lodge

Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in their annual rice harvest numbers for the past 3000 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520283)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:27 PM
Author: Irradiated ruddy lettuce macaca

i don't even know whether my wife has a job

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520363)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Aqua Arousing Windowlicker Wagecucks



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522246)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Nofapping ladyboy selfie



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522259)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: ocher institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531594)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station

not enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520256)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 7:07 AM
Author: heady bright main people set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524556)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:15 PM
Author: fishy internal respiration

little under $6M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520288)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:18 PM
Author: Electric area telephone

MFCR. State occupation, thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520304)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: greedy mood

271K TOPS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520377)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: cracking autistic step-uncle's house codepig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520585)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:17 PM
Author: flesh business firm son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520702)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: fishy internal respiration

sorry ur mad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522735)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: Obsidian Zombie-like Nowag Lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525741)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: cream chad

Six figures, champ.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520329)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Bisexual twinkling office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520502)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520594)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: violet adulterous preventive strike giraffe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524786)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: Concupiscible avocado address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528564)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:29 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy spot ratface

-$184K

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520375)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Canary Zippy Theater Cuckold

I fail to see how this is relevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520501)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:08 PM
Author: Balding puce kitchen therapy

Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits, write ups, write downs, etc.? Including retirement account contributions, distributions, roll overs? Including K1 returns of capital? Including present value of future earnings? Including appreciation on value of assets? Net of amortization and depreciation on those assets? Very unclear op

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520506)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle quadroon

holy fuck how jewish are you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522240)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:24 PM
Author: Crawly Cyan Hospital

low-200s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520548)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: Wild Beta Roommate Forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520555)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Sooty Queen Of The Night

like 2 million

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49520858)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: slap-happy seedy halford

$360k in tech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522161)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: claret brunch

Less than I want but way more than I deserve

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522182)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: jet-lagged immigrant

I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. Therefore, I sold off my winners but held my losers so that our tax bill in April shows bigly long-term capital gains for 2025 when in reality I barely beat the index.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522192)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: claret brunch

Shrew'd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522198)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Fear-inspiring Stead Private Investor

lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy them and the lifestyle you can provide (ideally one where they don't think about money at all). Any woman autistic enough to care about big number on long term gains is going to be autistic enough to care about overall performance, not just a big number on a line. The woman you're describing does not exist.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522202)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: jet-lagged immigrant

She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. She’ll see the big reported income but not the unrealized paper losses. She is indeed high T and autistic so she does care about the number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522694)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:08 PM
Author: pink drunken resort friendly grandma

(guy playing the long game)

at the same time, this is the sort of thinking that leads guys to do big ponzi schemes and then when they get found out they freak out and killself - don't do that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522791)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: jet-lagged immigrant

thank you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522969)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:43 PM
Author: lilac pozpig

I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be said for doing high roller ponzi until found out and then whatever happens happens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524077)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: Adventurous underhanded toilet seat

Who wants to pay off my house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522200)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:11 AM
Author: aromatic orchestra pit

negative money (lived off debt)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522220)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: brilliant marketing idea travel guidebook

~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522245)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle quadroon

what happened

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522255)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: brilliant marketing idea travel guidebook

i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if i had just held i'd be up even more today, but there's fucking way i would've survived that draw down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522320)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Aqua Arousing Windowlicker Wagecucks

if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual earnings are flame.

my income fluctuated probably 400% from 2024 to 2025 but nothing really changed. money comes in at random without any reference to what "year" it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522248)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: exciting clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522284)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:29 AM
Author: exhilarant place of business

Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to think I'll never cross into the 2 million range

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522287)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:40 AM
Author: internet-worthy rehab

$600k as solo lolyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522333)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: Sapphire outnumbered parlor liquid oxygen

Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decimated my year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525725)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Fantasy-prone den candlestick maker

~$900k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522345)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: rough-skinned senate multi-billionaire

Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522793)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: heady bright main people set

Wow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522813)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:35 PM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station

Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523151)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: rough-skinned senate multi-billionaire

How many blowjobs can I get for that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523174)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station

well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying in bulk, i can go to $15. So, 1,333.33 blowjobs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523284)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: rough-skinned senate multi-billionaire

That 1/3 sounds disappointing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523287)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: Citrine Sickened Shrine

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523843)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:06 PM
Author: topaz fiercely-loyal gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531645)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: pink drunken resort friendly grandma

you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so itt and honestly am pretty happy about it given my in-house lifestyle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522815)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: Chest-beating peach lay

the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads are max pullups in a single set threads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49522960)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: pink drunken resort friendly grandma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523114)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: translucent mind-boggling tank rigor

I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the last one, at 235 bodyweight not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523288)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: Diverse lavender juggernaut

Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523407)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:24 PM
Author: lake theater stage corn cake

if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off like 30+

maybe once a month i will see someone at the gym doing legit full ROM dead-hang pull-ups. the rest are kipping crossfit turds just bouncing tension off their brachials and could probably not squeeze out eight clean reps.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523780)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Diverse lavender juggernaut

Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by swinging unless you also don't go more than 1/2 up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525630)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: Chest-beating peach lay

LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups from a true dead hang (like required by most military testing) are substantially more difficult than what RFK and the road rules guy were doing. MTV was marginally better for form but still bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49529038)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Fear-inspiring Stead Private Investor

You sound poor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523499)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: violet adulterous preventive strike giraffe

but self-selection...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524790)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: cordovan casino

I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearly enough. Being working class rich fucking sucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523808)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Judgmental Boyish Milk Home

XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!"

*rubs hands togther*

"But I made 750k last year!!!!!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523866)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:08 PM
Author: cordovan casino

Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t survive ITE probably have a very different perspective than I do.

And how many times when your friends kid asks you about going to law school do they sit down and tell you about their 158 LSAT / 3.4 GPA and grand dreams of going to Drexel and getting in at Dechert or Morgan Lewis. Maybe Drinker if they’ve got some sense.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523884)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:23 AM
Author: claret brunch

Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawyers. Way less than half of the women.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524660)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:14 AM
Author: cordovan casino

It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law school classes over time. I got a good return on mine, but yea all of the people who drop out of/evolve away from the profession would almost certainly have been better off not going $300k into debt (above and beyond undergrad) in their early 20s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525097)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask

back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're going to a t14

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525701)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: ocher institution

Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a cliff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525737)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: cordovan casino

TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of starting lawyer salaries” scholarship was explosive at the time, and for good reason. It only came out in like 2008 and the blog it was on has been lost to time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49526155)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: fishy internal respiration

this is correct.

I started with 26 people in my summer class.

Of my summer class only two are partners at law firms - me and another guy I hired back to work for me as a W2 partner.

Two other guys have their own law firms but makes like 300k-500kyr

three others are in-house

All others are somewhere other than law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524780)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: Judgmental Boyish Milk Home

amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525050)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: heady bright main people set

The personality that really likes it here actually thrives in law practice too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525106)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:27 AM
Author: exciting clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525129)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525700)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:10 PM
Author: Hateful Bistre Theatre

$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there’s been no inflation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49523890)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: slap-happy seedy halford

I paid just under that in taxes this year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525732)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: Splenetic market death wish

somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit this year, however.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524680)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:30 AM
Author: Splenetic market death wish

this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524683)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: Splenetic market death wish

actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep close track of how much i make altogether; i focus on how much i save. won't know the exact number until i do taxes probably.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49524686)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:11 PM
Author: Vigorous library new version

A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. Pay taxes on much less.

Depositing 400k in fees first week of January too.

Solo PI.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525770)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:22 PM
Author: angry locus deer antler

How do you get your taxable income lower?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525966)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:37 PM
Author: Vigorous library new version

Bought a car (100% depreciation)

Pay myself rent -- I own office building

Office building depreciation/property taxes

Did a lot of work to the office building. New AC/Furniture. I fully renovated it a couple years ago for like 200k. All adds value to property and gets written off.

like 75k in meals and travel

Gas

Health Insurance

Mortgage interest home/office

I prepay whatever expenses I can for the next year -- car insurance, ad spend, web marketing, etc.

~150k in staff salaries. Paralegal always pays for herself by bringing in cases so I don't really count that. I'm sending a demand on a DUI wreck she brought in in January for $1 mil.

Creative but nothing fraud.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49526021)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: exciting clown

Creative but nothing fraud tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49526159)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527453)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Vigorous library new version

Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing what she's talking about. Lots of family members. She's probably brought in $1 mil in fees since she started with me ~8 years ago. I bought her a car last year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528026)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528065)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:45 PM
Author: Diverse lavender juggernaut

About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyone who has 5mil networth can make over 10%/yr in qqq and pay much lesser than I.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525872)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: Chartreuse Titillating Haunted Graveyard

425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49525997)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:03 AM
Author: razzmatazz double fault

still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527285)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:29 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started the year as an equity partner where i got a monthly draw, then moved in april to a firm where i'm a nonequity partner. i forget exactly how much my equity payout for 2024 was, but i think it'll come in around 580.

next year, with my origination bonus for 2025, comp should be around 610-650. not sure what this place is doing with my base for next year, but it better go up because i had $1.8m in originations in 9 months.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527322)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in? Is it pretax. Do you get your accountant to withhold tax?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527331)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:37 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. they returned that to me after i left, but it had increased to like $45k. i figured they were gonna just keep my money. this was all w-2 income with withholdings done. that firm is set up so that everyone is a "shareholder" and employee of the firm it isn't a partnership. when i was in biglaw, when i made partner i got paid on a k-1 basis, which fucking blew.

i'm eligible for equity at this firm at the end of 2026, and i will make it no question. the money i have in the pipeline would be enough originations for 2026 to qualify because the threshold is pretty low here. even if my book implodes in january, i'll have enough.

equity formula, i understand, looks something like: 40% of your "working attorney" number plus 20% of originations, plus something for being a "good firm citizen." i'm filling a need this firm desperately needs - despite having a bunch of labor attorneys, they are entertainment labor lawyers, which means they don't do ANY NLRB litigation or collective bargaining. all they do is interpret 600-page CBAs that were negotiated decades ago and are renegotiated by some employer association. so i guess they will do something for me to reflect that.

if my book in 2027 looks like it does right now, i'd make $1,080,000 or so my first year as an equity partner. this firm is an actual partnership, unfortunately, so i will have to start my own corporation or some kind of bullshit and pay way more in taxes.

we have a dood in my office who sues foreign govts for terrorist acts and brings in like 20 million a year, and that apparently winds up being a windfall to all the equity partners.

all firms should be set up as companies, this partnership stuff sucks ass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527344)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:27 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earned and whatever is left we split between each other based on ownership proportion. So if we had 4 million in profit and if I have a 25 percent interest then I get a million, less whatever I’ve been taking out to live on during the year. Say $200k for that.

It’s complicated by the need to leave some of that money in operations for the following year because we don’t take loans for that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531713)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:36 AM
Author: exciting clown

Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning less each year and next year I am really gonna be down big, meanwhile you keep going up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527341)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:39 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the business side of law. i've always been regarded as really good at what i do, but kind of an oddball and oblivious to biz dev, etc.

when i was in biglaw, an of counsel i hung around with always told me that if i sobered up and quit doing drugs/drinking 24/7, i could have a big book. turns out he was right ($2m is big for me, anyway, and i never thought i'd have anything like this.)

you're doing great brother, anything over 300k is really good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527346)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:42 AM
Author: exciting clown

are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltwater tank threading and miss it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527349)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:46 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditional labor law?

i'll be saltthreading again soon. we moved out of our house in august to do a renovation. i have to run over there every few days to feed the fish and maintain the tank. it's 120.

we should be moving back in within a couple weeks and i will resume tank threading and maybe throw in some home renovation threading.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527357)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: exciting clown

i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom for u instead?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527369)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur ass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527372)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: exciting clown

are you still pozzed?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527430)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

undetectable brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527434)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:26 AM
Author: exciting clown

i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527443)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:36 AM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

wow this is hot, let's take this off boart

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527490)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: elite headpube whorehouse

$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527325)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: geriatric laughsome piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528452)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Navy cheese-eating abode

Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business collects as projected in December. The first over $1m year ever, bros.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527340)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 12:02 PM
Author: Vivacious Yellow Chapel

600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t really checked

30hr/week

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527544)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Crystalline feces

180 last note

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49532880)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: angry locus deer antler

About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and other entrepreneurial activities.

It's a great blessing, and things have blown up fast over the last few years after years of toil. Last year was about 500k, 300k before that, lower for many years before that. This is a result of sustained business building, not one big settlement that won't be replicated.

However, this is a very risky seat to be sitting in. I'm a target in a wide variety of ways that I didn't anticipate, and everything could vanish at any moment. I am trying to take chips off the table and put them into safer assets where I can. But that's not easy to do.

Also, there is a hard, fairly low ceiling on my happiness because of my marriage to an angry, bitter woman who gets mad if she sees me enjoying myself. I don't want to divorce her for family reasons, but matters may come to a head in 2026.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49527645)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

that is 180, very impressive.

very unlikely everything will implode immediately. just plow like $2m into index funds over time and max out retirement accounts. that's what i'm doing. wife and i currently have close to $3m in retirement accounts and if i get to $2m in taxable, i won't worry at all about my book blowing to pieces.

but honestly, you will probably continue doing well so don't worry.

on the marriage, you should try to save it if you think it's salvageable, but if it really is far gone then you should split up. don't stay together for money. but don't be so fast to peace out. maybe if she knows you are putting your foot down, she will knock off her bullshit. maybe not, but you should give it a shot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528240)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:24 PM
Author: Insanely creepy station boltzmann

I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a mitzvah staying w her for the kids sake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528342)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: house-broken primrose legend

i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody should ever do what i did and blow up a good marriage just because they're doing mounds of cocaine and strange pussy, but i also don't believe that you should stay if your relationship is in the shitty and not recoverable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528390)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: poppy histrionic nursing home

just do discreet affairs bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49528356)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: angry locus deer antler

Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains to come up with their headline numbers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49538515)



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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: maize know-it-all toaster

I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do think it’s good to note.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49540547)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: hairraiser drab brethren pervert

CSLG free thread. Odd case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531487)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: Concupiscible avocado address

Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't know bonuses for a bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531946)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:06 AM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask

count any bonus you received in calendar 2025

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49533223)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Diverse lavender juggernaut

I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am and today at 9am started new job. Tomorrow will go for a swim before work.. but so far it doesn't seem like it's that easy. But as long as I get to take a 30minute run for lunch plus actually eat another 30 mins it might be a step up from working nights. Bit hourly rate is also lower.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49531986)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:05 PM
Author: maize know-it-all toaster

About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $470k or so in gains (mostly unrealized) and dividends.

Haven’t done the taxes yet though, will report back later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49532876)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: heady bright main people set

Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49532879)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:05 AM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask

whats the other 35%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49533222)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: translucent mind-boggling tank rigor

cap gains

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49539832)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Emerald floppy pocket flask

are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need to revise my number

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49540017)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: heady bright main people set

I'm up like $440k now on the year.

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Date: December 25th, 2025 6:55 AM
Author: razzmatazz double fault

~$500k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2"#49538879)